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KOPTISCHE APOKRYPHE APOSTEL ACTEN. II. 
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Fragment 16 . 
[welcher] dem Paulus 
[solche Gnade verlie¬ 
hen]. Sie giengen wieder 
hinein und meldeten 
dem Könige was gesche¬ 
hen war. Während jener 
noch in Verwunderung 
da stand und. 
siehe, da trat Paulus um 
die neunte Stunde ein, 
und viele Philosophen 
und Bediente standen 
vor dem Könige. Und 
der Centurion sprach: 
«0 Caesar, siehst du, ich 
der Krieger Gottes . . . 
(pag. 42) qui nimio 
pauore correpti gressu 
concito perrexerunt ad 
Caesarem, quae uide- 
rant et audierant nun- 
tiantes. XVIII. At ille 
cum audisset miratus 
est horrifice, et ingenti 
stupore attonitus coepit 
de his quae nuntiata 
sunt ei cum philosophis 
et amicis atque ministris 
reipublicae, seu et cum 
his quos habere poterat 
ex senatu conicere, at¬ 
que confabulationis ser- 
monem cum timore et 
confusione sensus ha¬ 
bere. dumque haec in- 
uicem mirarentur et se- 
cum quaererent, uenit 
Paulus circa horam no- 
nam ianuis clausis ste- 
titque ante Caesarem et 
ait: Caesar, ecce ego 
Paulus, regis aeterni 
et inuicti miles. uel nunc 
crede, quia non sum 
mortuus, sed uiuo deo 
meo. 
And all those who 
were there gathered 
around, marvelled at 
the sight, and praised 
God who hacl given so 
great a grace unto his 
disciple Paul. Tlien the 
executioner returned 
and told Nero all that 
had happened; so that 
Nero also marvelled, 
and the princes who 
were with him trembled 
greatly. And at about 
the ninth hour of day, 
Paul appeared unto the 
Emperor, and said to 
him: I am the disciple 
of Jesus Christ that 
came to thy city; and I 
have exalted many of 
the people thereof. Be- 
hold I am alive, and not 
dead, indeed. And upon 
tliee shall come many 
sore afflictions, because 
thou hast shecl the blood 
of the righteous; after a 
few days I shall call 
upon tliee judgements 
many and great, that 
shall not be done away. 
And as he had said this, 
he disappeared for be- 
fore him; then Nero 
Melanges asiatiques. T. X, p. 371. 
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